This question is based on Wole Soyinka's
The Trials of Brother Jero.
The spotlight on the dark stage in the opening of the reveals
Answer
(B)
the prophet
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This question is based on Wole Soyinka's
The Trials of Brother Jero.
'...This morning alone I have been thrice in conflict with the daughters of discord. First there was...'The omission in the conflict in the above statement from the play refers to
Answer
(D)
Chume's wife whom he owes money.
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This question is based on Wole Soyinka's
The Trials of Brother Jero.
Jero is aptly described in the play as
Answer
(B)
suave
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This question is based on Wole Soyinka's
The Trials of Brother Jero.
The most significant factors driving members to Jero's church in the play are
Answer
(B)
fulfilment and security
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This question is based on Wole Soyinka's
The Trials of Brother Jero.
The most immediate service that Jero wishes to saddle MEMBER with at the end of the play is to
Answer
(C)
use him to arrest Chume
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This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer.
In the play, most characters act in ignorance while the audience is aware of the true situation. This is an example of
Answer
(B)
dramatic irony
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This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer.
For Young Marlow, which of the following is the most objectionable aspect of marriage?
Answer
(A)
Rigours of formal courtship
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This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer.
Kate, Hardcastle's daughter, agrees to her father's choice of a husband for her but is critical of the
Answer
(D)
suitor's reserved and bashful nature
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This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer.
Mrs. Hardcastle is depicted as
Answer
(A)
a potential aristocrat
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This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer.
The writer's satire is most biting when applied to
Answer
(D)
Mrs. Hardcastle
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This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer.
The play is concerned principally with
Answer
(A)
presenting the problems of social class and British mannerism
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This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer.
X: I am told he's a man of an excellent understanding
Y: Is he?
X: Very generous.
Y: I believe I shall like him.
X: Young and brave.
Y: I'm sure I shall like him.
X: And very handsome.
Y:....,I'll have him.
Who are the speakers X and Y and about whom are they speaking ?
Answer
(D)
Mr. Hardcastle and Kate about Marlow
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This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa, Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa, K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.
In 'Hurrah for Thunder', Christopher Okigbo celebrates
Answer
(D)
hunters
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This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa, Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa, K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.
'The eye that looks down will surely see the nose
The finger that fits should be used to pick the nose
The lines above from 'Hurrah for Thunder' bear two major connotations.
These are
Answer
(B)
sensitiveness and arrogance
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This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa, Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa, K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.
The repetition of the line 'They Too Are Earth' has the effect of
Answer
(A)
making us more conscious of the earth
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This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa, Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa, K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.
Oswald Mtshali's 'They Washerwoman's Prayer' is
Answer
(D)
about slave labour
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This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa, Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa, K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.
The phrase 'location indifferent' in 'Telephone Conversation' conveys Wole Soyinka's
Answer
(A)
non-concern for space
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This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa, Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa, K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.
'Returning is not possible
And going forward is a great difficulty'
Sorrow' depict
Answer
(A)
inevitablilty of fate
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This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa, Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa, K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.
'The is my son, mine own Telemachus To whom I leave the scepter and the isle.'
In the lines above from Tennyson's Ulysses', scepter' and 'isle' are a poetic device called
Answer
(D)
allegory
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This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa, Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa, K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.
The persona in 'My Last Duchess' regards the painting as
Answer
(A)
a perfectly realistic representation of the Duchess
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This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa, Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa, K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.
Wordsworth's 'The Solitary Reaper' is preoccupied with the
Answer
(A)
relieveing effect of the song on the reaper's
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This question is based on zaynab Alkali's The Stillborn.
'And in spite of everything, in the soft cradle of her heart, there was another baby forming'.
What baby is being referred to in the above statement?
Answer
(B)
The reunion of Li and Habu
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This question is based on zaynab Alkali's The Stillborn.
Li got more accustomed to her home because she
Answer
(D)
became closer to tradition
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This question is based on zaynab Alkali's The Stillborn.
'My blood is hot, but my flesh is famished...
The rains have come, the field is prepared,
But my field remains untilled,...
The statement above reflects the
Answer
(C)
agony of a wasted fertility
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This question is based on zaynab Alkali's The Stillborn.
Grandma informs Li in the novel that her salt-pot is empty because
Answer
(D)
grandfather will never part with his money for salt
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This question is based on zaynab Alkali's The Stillborn.
The dominant tone of the novel is one of
Answer
(B)
anger
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This question is based on zaynab Alkali's The Stillborn.
The major concern of the novel is the
Answer
(A)
promotion of simple, rural existence
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This question is based on Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge.
One of the main features that sustains the reader's interest in the novel is the
Answer
(A)
creation and resolution of conflicts
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This question is based on Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge.
What is represented by the characters of Henchard and Farfrae in the novel is the
Answer
(A)
contrast between the old and the new
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This question is based on Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge.
Characterization in the novel is designed to show that man's fate is determined by
Answer
(A)
his character
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This question is based on Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbirdge.
Henchard arranged a meeting with Susan that the Ring instead of in his house because
Answer
(D)
his reputation as the church-warden and mayor was at stake
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This question is based on Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbirdge.
Hardy employs the character of Henchard to propagate the notion of
Answer
(A)
confessing our weaknesses
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This question is based on Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbirdge.
The goal of the novel is to expose the
Answer
(D)
influence of environment and morality in human conduct
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This question is based on Thomas Hardy''s The Mayor of Casterbirdge.
What makes the novel a tragedy?
Answer
(A)
The poetic justice in Henchard''s punishment
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This question is based on General Literary Principles.
An inherent quality of the lyric is that it must
Answer
(C)
express the poet's subjective emotions
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This question is based on General Literary Principles.
The narrator that tells his story as if all actions in the story revolve around him is
Answer
(B)
a first person narrator
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This question is based on General Literary Principles.
The literary term which describes the angle at which a writer tells his story is
Answer
(D)
point of view
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This question is based on General Literary Principles.
A character who remains unchanged in a work of art is called
Answer
(B)
a flat character
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This question is based on General Literary Principles.
A satire employs
Answer
(D)
sarcasm and humour for social criticism
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This question is based on General Literary Principles.
The figure of speech in which a poet implicitly compares an object or idea with another totally different object or idea is called a
Answer
(D)
metaphor
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This question is based on General Literary Principles.
'what time night it is
I do not know
Except that like some fish
Doped out of the deep
I have bobbed up bellywise'.
J.P. Clark, 'Night Rain'
Which of the following figures of speech is employed above ?
Answer
(D)
Onomatopoeia
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This question is based on General Literary Principles.
A figure of speech in which an absent person or an object is addressed as if present is referred to as
Answer
(B)
apostrophe
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This question is based on General Literary Principles.
When a writer refers to past events to throw light on current ones he is employing
Answer
(B)
flashback
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This question is based on General Literary Principles.
'I love to pass my fingers,
As tide through weeds of the sea
And wind the tall fern-fronds
Through the strands of your hair
Dark as night that screens the naked moon.'
J.P. Clark, 'Olokun'
The dominant poetic techniques employed in the lines above is
Answer
(D)
simile
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This question is based on Literary Principles.
'You Kiss her on the cheek
As white people do,
You Kiss her open-sore lips
As white people do,
You suck slimy saliva
From each other's mouths,
As white people do.'
Okot p' Bitek 'Song of Lawino'
The writer of the lines above uses repetition